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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and money laundering on Wednesday, the most high-profile conviction yet in a sweeping graft investigation that has jailed dozens of the Latin American country's elite....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has told Hispanic lawmakers that a program that protects young immigrants from deportation is likely illegal, though he is personally supportive....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI broke with the president in key areas Wednesday, rejecting the idea that an investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump election campaign is a "witch hunt" and promising not to cave to any pressure from a White House that has challenged boundaries with the nation's top law enforcement agency....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to question the former chairman of the Trump campaign and will subpoena him if necessary, the panel's Republican chairman said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the controversy surrounding a meeting last summer between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton (all times local):...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told Congress Wednesday that the Fed is carefully watching a recent slowdown in inflation and if it persists, it could lead the central bank to rethink its plans on rate hikes....
(Vatican Radio) Indonesia's president has issued a decree giving the government the power to ban radical organizations, in a move aimed at outlawing groups which have caused a sharp rise in the political weight of extremist Islam. The measure announced on Wednesday by the country's top security minister follows months of sectarian tensions in the world's most populous Muslim nation that shook the government and undermined its reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam.It amends an existing law regulating mass organizations, allowing the government to sidestep a potentially lengthy court process to implement a ban. Analysts say it is aimed at groups such as the Hizbut Tahir Indonesia (HTI), that promotes the adoption of sharia and the establishment of a caliphate in Indonesia, similar to the Islamic State (IS). However, Wiranto, the coordinating minister for politics, security and law, explained that the decree signed by President Jok...
The Jesuit-run St. Xavier's College in in eastern India’s Kolkata city began functioning as the nation’s first Jesuit university on July 7, opening its first academic year 6 months after achieving the new status. West Bengal state chief minister Mamata Banerjee unveiled the plague of the new building of St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, along with business tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, a former student of St. Xavier's College who funded the building. "Education makes one a real human being. Minority institutions have a very vital and important role,” said the chief minister commending quality education imparted by missionary institutions such as by Christians and Ramakrishna Mission. “I believe, in three-four years, St Xavier's would be able to compete with institutions like Harvard and Oxford,”” she added.The university as well as the college is named after the 16th century Spanish missionary and co-founder of t...
(Vatican Radio) European Churches on Wednesday called on the European Union to avoid opening way for the militarization of its budget and structures but to strengthen its role as an actor for peace and reconciliation.Following a meeting on Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) released a statement in which it expresses opposition to policies that “could transform the EU into a military alliance”.The statement was penned in light of three recent papers on defence policy by the European Commission which would fund military research and subsidise the defense industry.It says that such increases in military funding would have adverse effects on security, while similar levels of investments in other sectors would increase “reconciliation, stability, and prosperity—the very basis of security”.“As churches living out gospel values, we urge the EU to gather all human and financial capacities for peacebuilding as the...
